{"id":2384,"date":"2019-06-21T00:47:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T00:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2019-07-01T03:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T03:01:07","slug":"the-characteristics-of-one-being-filled-with-the-spirit-part-ixb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2384","title":{"rendered":"The Holy Spirit in the Church Today &#8211; Characteristics of Being Filled With the Spirit &#8211; Part IXB &#8211; A Study in the Book of Ephesians"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><strong>Ephesians 5:19<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This characteristic is inward.\u00a0 No one knows what scripture you are quoting or what spiritual song you are singing in your heart.\u00a0 Only God knows.\u00a0 A psalm or song in the heart is worship.\u00a0 It is between you and the Lord.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Take note of the quality of this content in the heart. The Psalms are Scripture.\u00a0 Christians are to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly.\u00a0 The songs are spiritual songs.\u00a0 Spiritual songs are songs that are biblically correct and that promote biblical thinking.\u00a0 Making melody speaks of a spiritual song\u00a0with a particular quality.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;\u00a0 <\/em>Ephesians 5:20<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>This characteristic of the Spirit filled believer is upward.\u00a0 It is the expression of gratefulness to God that is continuous.\u00a0 Giving thanks always because God is sovereign and there is never a time that He is not in control and accomplishing His purpose.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The gratefulness expressed here is for all things both good and bad.\u00a0 It includes the bad because the God of Scripture is able to bring good out of the bad.\u00a0 Satan means to destroy, but God means it for good.\u00a0 <em>Good<\/em> is that which accomplishes God&#8217;s purpose.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><strong>Eph. 5:21\u00a0 <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This characteristic of the Spirit filled believer is outward.\u00a0 It characterizes our relationships with others.\u00a0 Submission identifies with serving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The rest of Ephesians chapter five and part of chapter six illustrate how\u00a0 Spirit filled believers submit to one another.\u00a0 If you are a wife, husband, child, father, servant (employee) or master (employer), there is information in this passage on what submitting looks like in your particular role.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Of particular interest is how a leader such as a husband, father or employer submits to those under him.\u00a0 Spirit filled submission in the above mentioned roles will be considered in the next article of this series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8230;let the word of Christ dwell in you richly&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;\u00a0 Ephesians 5:19 This characteristic is inward.\u00a0 No one knows what scripture you are quoting or what spiritual song you are singing in your heart.\u00a0 Only God knows.\u00a0 A psalm or song in the heart is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2384\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Holy Spirit in the Church Today &#8211; Characteristics of Being Filled With the Spirit &#8211; Part IXB &#8211; A Study in the Book of Ephesians<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}